jeffc
Head Pro
+7 is no car crash, it's your handicap for flips sake!!
every day somebody has a great round of golf , yesterday was your turn, enjoy it.
every day somebody has a great round of golf , yesterday was your turn, enjoy it.
A back 9 carcrash, Why o why o why.......
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Oddsocks
Ryder Cup Winner
oh i enjoyed it, my point was like someone else stated in this thread "expectations"
Instead of taking a +2 front nine as a bonus, i was more pi**ed i didnt carry it forward to a back nine equal or close. Im more than happy to have shot 6 under my h/c especially after my grey patch mid season
Instead of taking a +2 front nine as a bonus, i was more pi**ed i didnt carry it forward to a back nine equal or close. Im more than happy to have shot 6 under my h/c especially after my grey patch mid season
jeffc
Head Pro
The reality will sink in with a 1.8 cut you bandit 
jeffc
Head Pro
and just to show you how it messes with your head, in your next comp when you are on the first tee just think you gotta get 5 pars just to keep your handicap !!
Good innit this game
only joking with you, well done, but shows what a mentally challenging game it is.
Good innit this game
only joking with you, well done, but shows what a mentally challenging game it is.
Oddsocks
Ryder Cup Winner
The reality will sink in with a 1.8 cut you bandit
Well next week is a comp so id be happy with a 1.8 cut thats for sure.
richart
Major Champion
The-LHC. I think i might have a publisher interested in your post. 
The_LHC
Head Pro
The-LHC. I think i might have a publisher interested in your post.
Yeah it was a touch long wasn't it? That always happens to me, I just don't know when to stop.
Why I remember one day, back in '93...
richart
Major Champion
The-LHC. I think i might have a publisher interested in your post.
Yeah it was a touch long wasn't it? That always happens to me, I just don't know when to stop.
Why I remember one day, back in '93...
No offence mate, being known to burble on myself.
The_LHC
Head Pro
none taken, I'm fully cognisant regarding my excess verbiosity, that post was only supposed to be a quick one along the lines of "5 birdies! 79 with two 7s! Woohoo!" but somehow it got a little out of hand...
I don't see it as a car crash at all but merely an example as others have said of expectation changing the performance. You knew you were scoring well whether or not your partners had said anything at the turn. You started to get carried away and playing several shots ahead. You aren't alone and even the pros have been guilty of getting the speech ready before imploding.
I can understand the pain of letting a potentially great score slip away but nothing is going to change that. Put it down to a hard lesson learned but take solace in the fact that you tamed the front nine, and for the most part the back too. Keep focussed. It's not to disimilar to Hawkeyes post.
I can understand the pain of letting a potentially great score slip away but nothing is going to change that. Put it down to a hard lesson learned but take solace in the fact that you tamed the front nine, and for the most part the back too. Keep focussed. It's not to disimilar to Hawkeyes post.
Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
I've got to be honest...I used this "tactic" myself the year before last at the "North versus South" do at Whittington Heath. We were playing 27 holes, 9 in the morning, 18 in the afternoon, and one of the guys in my threeball played off 18. He was quite tasty, driving like God with iron play and putting to match, and scored 21 points in the morning with a couple of blobs over the 9 holes.
After a lunchbreak, we started out in the afternoon, and I couldn't help noticing that he had scored another 21 points on the front 9, again with 2 blobs.
I was a bit put out that this 18 handicapper was scoring so well and knowing how the old mind games work, as we stepped onto the 10th tee mentioned the fact that he had scored 42 points with 4 blobs over the previous 18 holes and also asked if he had got his handicap off the top of a cornflake packet.
His game went completely tits up from there on in, and he only scored another 12 points.
I felt very guilty, especially as he was playing for the "North"
After a lunchbreak, we started out in the afternoon, and I couldn't help noticing that he had scored another 21 points on the front 9, again with 2 blobs.
I was a bit put out that this 18 handicapper was scoring so well and knowing how the old mind games work, as we stepped onto the 10th tee mentioned the fact that he had scored 42 points with 4 blobs over the previous 18 holes and also asked if he had got his handicap off the top of a cornflake packet.
His game went completely tits up from there on in, and he only scored another 12 points.
I felt very guilty, especially as he was playing for the "North"
Oddsocks
Ryder Cup Winner
Smiffy, could that be refered to as foul play or course management
No that is just Smiffy trying to hold onto his cash. To be fair it shows how quickly a player can crumble (and he'd done so well holding it together for 18 with Smiffy - even pre-white trousers) once they start thinking too much
chrisd
Major Champion
I've got to be honest...I used this "tactic" myself the year before last at the "North versus South" do at Whittington Heath. We were playing 27 holes, 9 in the morning, 18 in the afternoon, and one of the guys in my threeball played off 18. He was quite tasty, driving like God with iron play and putting to match, and scored 21 points in the morning with a couple of blobs over the 9 holes.
After a lunchbreak, we started out in the afternoon, and I couldn't help noticing that he had scored another 21 points on the front 9, again with 2 blobs.
I was a bit put out that this 18 handicapper was scoring so well and knowing how the old mind games work, as we stepped onto the 10th tee mentioned the fact that he had scored 42 points with 4 blobs over the previous 18 holes and also asked if he had got his handicap off the top of a cornflake packet.
His game went completely tits up from there on in, and he only scored another 12 points.
I felt very guilty, especially as he was playing for the "North"
Before I took to golf I played quite a bit of competitive tennis.
Anyone playing well against us got the usual " coo your serving like God today, where's that come from?" during the change over. You'd be suprised how often that little ploy worked!
Chris
Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
You can say that again Martin.
You can only manage it for two holes
Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
Course management.
Oddsocks
Ryder Cup Winner
Like ya style dispite the rumour that you managed yo get a pair of ex George Michael White chino's for your ataire range
You can say that again Martin.
You can only manage it for two holes
Only if I've brought my A game with me. Usually a gibbering wreck walking off the 1st tee
HawkeyeMS
Ryder Cup Winner
Since when has playing better than your h'cap been a car crash? Granted it wasn't as good as your front nine but I dare say you don't play 9 holes in 2 over very often.
A car crash is 3 over on the front and 15 over on the back as I did not so long ago or playing the front nine in +1 and the back 9 in +21 as a guy at our club did. Not playing better than your h'cap on both nines and scoring 42 points. I'd have been delighted with 19 points coming home on saturday, jesus I'd have taken 16 or 17. I don't even consider the 14 I did get a car crash even though I was level at the turn.
I'd say your round is more like someone walking past your car and brushing your wing mirror with their coat
Another thing, if you know your gross score, and you know your h'cap, how do you not know your points? 2 over is either 5 or 6 under your h'cap so it doesn't take a genius to work out you had 23 or 24 points.
A car crash is 3 over on the front and 15 over on the back as I did not so long ago or playing the front nine in +1 and the back 9 in +21 as a guy at our club did. Not playing better than your h'cap on both nines and scoring 42 points. I'd have been delighted with 19 points coming home on saturday, jesus I'd have taken 16 or 17. I don't even consider the 14 I did get a car crash even though I was level at the turn.
I'd say your round is more like someone walking past your car and brushing your wing mirror with their coat
Another thing, if you know your gross score, and you know your h'cap, how do you not know your points? 2 over is either 5 or 6 under your h'cap so it doesn't take a genius to work out you had 23 or 24 points.
The_LHC
Head Pro
You can say that again Martin.
You can only manage it for two holes
Only if I've brought my A game with me. Usually a gibbering wreck walking off the 1st tee
I know you're all mates but joking aside if I got drawn with someone like smiffy I don't think I'd bother playing, life's too short to spend 4 hours with somebody I know is trying to wind me up, that's not why I play golf.
